Kaeso Publicius Ulpanius

Kaeso Publicius Ulpanius (82 BC-26 BC) was a general of the Roman Republic under Julius Caesar.

Biography
Ulpanius was born in 82 BC in Luni (La Spezia, Italy), and he became a soldier of the Roman Republic. Ulpanius served under Julius Caesar in his Gallic Wars in present-day France and Switzerland, and he became one of his aides-de-camp in his war with the Arverni. After the Gallic Wars, Ulpanius was given command of Caesar's eastern army, which was dispatched to Asia to rid the eastern Roman provinces of the House of Brutii and Pompey the Great's other supporters. At the Battle of Selhabium, he defeated a Brutii army in battle and won control of coastal Syria, and he proceeded to besiege several Brutii strongholds in the region. Damascus fell in 46 BC, and Jerusalem fell later that year without resistance. The eastern provinces were restored to the rule of the House of Julii, weakening the Brutii. Ulpanius died in 26 BC in Rome.